The hour-long rally in Wildwood, N.J., gave President Trump a chance to repay a political favor to Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a freshman party-switching congressman from southern New Jersey.
While New Jersey is considered Democratic territory, the southern part of the state skews more conservative and is considered friendlier terrain for Republicans. Even so, New Jersey is a long shot for Trump in this fall's election. Four years ago, he lost the Garden State to Hillary Clinton by 14 percentage points.
Van Drew later switched his party affiliation to the GOP, a move that Trump welcomed during a visit between the two in the Oval Office on Dec. 19, the day after the House's historic vote. Trump, whose surrogates encouraged the congressman to join the Republicans, will return the favor by campaign for Van Drew’s re-election bid at Tuesday’s rally.
Offering a New Jersey version of his stump speech, Trump recited a record that included new trade deals, a bigger defense budget, counter-terrorism actions and the economy.
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